Highlights

What Each Side Would Agree To

Published: December 2, 2003

Here are highlights of the Geneva Accord, an unofficial peace proposal:

A DEMILITARIZED PALESTINIAN STATE would be created and Jerusalem would split into two capitals.

ISRAEL would withdraw to the borders existing before the 1967 war. Some major settlements would be dismantled, although 75 percent of Jewish settlers would stay in Palestinian territories under Israeli protection.

ISRAEL would give up parts of the Negev adjacent to its border with the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIANS would waive the right of about 3.6 million people whose families became refugees in the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli war to return to what is now Israel.

ISRAEL would cede sovereignty over a flash point shrine in Jerusalem's walled old city known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The site would get international monitors. Israel would retain control of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site.

PALESTINIANS would disarm, recognize Israel as a Jewish state and end violence and incitement against Israel.